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Hybrid spectrin type repeats produced by exon-skipping in dystrophin.
Biochimica et biophysica acta - 1 Jun 2006
Menhart Nick
Abstract excerpt
Dystrophin is the protein whose defect underlies Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy, DMD, a common (1:3500 male births) and fatal condition in which muscle tissue deteriorates leading to death in the second or third decade of life. Dystrophin is coded for by the largest human gene, and one of the most complex. It is translated from at least 7 distinct promoters, with the largest transcripts (which are the ones involved...
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